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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






2. Return of Halley's Comet.






3. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






4. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






5. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






6. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






7. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






8. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






9. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






10. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






11. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






12. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






13. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






14. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






15. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






16. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






17. Transit of Venus.






18. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






19. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






20. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






21. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






22. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






23. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






24. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






25. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






26. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






27. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






28. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






29. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






30. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






31. Triple conjunction Mars






32. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






33. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






34. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






35. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






36. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






37. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






38. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






39. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






40. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






41. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






42. Transit of Mercury.






43. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






44. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






45. Triple conjunction Mars






46. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






47. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






48. December 10






49. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






50. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.